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Rainy Days Get You Down? Try Mud Paint

Homesteading
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For some sunshine after the storm, brighten up your landscape with mud paint, a safe and fun way to add color to the outdoors.

Rosemary: Get as Much as You Can for Fall & Winter

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Whether you pot it and bring it indoors or harvest it and give up for the season, rosemary has many uses during cold-weather months. Here are some.

How to Clean and Refurbish Cast Iron Cookware

Homesteading | Urban Farming |
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Try this method to transform a rusty cast iron skillet or pot back into a shimmering black piece of cookware you can use.

Learn What’s in Your “Tea” and How to Grow Your Own

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Many drinks we call tea are correctly known as tisanes. Here's how to grow your own tea plant and harvest its leaves to make delicious beverages.

Healing Herbs: Use These 7 for Pain Relief

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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Herbs can often help calm muscles, tendons and ligaments, as well as soothe the body’s pains. Here's a selection of our favorites.

Learn the Many Uses of Wintergreen

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
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This herb is a flavoring agent for gum, candy and toothpaste, but it also has medicinal uses via tea and infused oils. You can grow wintergreen yourself.

Author Shows How & Why “Happy Pigs Taste Better”

Animals | Farm Management | Homesteading | Large Animals | News |
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Alice Percy provides detailed instructions for humanely raising pigs on pasture in a book that's valuable to homesteader and commercial farmer alike.

Grow, Dry & Prepare Catnip for Yourself & Your Cat

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Homesteading | Large Animals |
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Whether you want to pour yourself a cup of catnip tea or make your kitty a catnip-stuffed toy, this is one versatile purr-ennial.

Control Honeysuckle While Using It to Your Benefit

Farm Management | Homesteading |
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Honeysuckle can be invasive and overtake native plants, but you can help control populations of the shrub with these DIY projects.

The Wisdom of Women Farmers, Part 2: Thoughts on Money

Farm Management | Homesteading | News |
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Five women farmers over 50 share insight about their experiences in life and agriculture. In this second segment, the topic is money.

“Ruffage” Applies Whole-Animal Butchery Principles to Vegetables

Homesteading | News | Recipes |
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Chef and farmer Abra Berens provides hundreds of recipes to cook vegetables in unexpected ways as well as knowledge on growing and storage.

Make Decorative Looms Using Wildflowers

Homesteading
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A loom made of cardboard and string can help youngsters understand the importance and beauty of wildflowers in your farm's ecosystem.

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